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XI. A large "PREFACE" to a book written at the command of Charles I. by Archbishop Usher, and published by Dr. Sanderson, entitled "The POWER communicated by GOD to the PRINCE, and the OBEDIENCE required of the SUBJECT. London, 1661." 4to. Second corrected edition of this work was published in 8vo. 1683.
Politics, commerce, manufactures, and navigation, are here treated of in a satisfactory and instructive manner, but with rather too much the air of philosophy. Michaux's Travels to the West of the Alleghany Mountains. 1805. 8vo. These travels are instructive regarding the manners, commerce, soil, climate, and especially botany.
LONGMANS, GREEN, & CO., 15 EAST 16th STREET, NEW YORK. A NOVEL. By the Author of "Miss Molly." Crown 8vo, Cloth, $1.00. "One of the strongest novels for the year.... A book of absorbing and sustained interest, full of those touches of pathos, gusts of passion, and quick glimpses into the very hearts of men and women which are a necessary equipment of any great writer of fiction."
By James Hanway. 1754. 2 vols. 4to. Bell of Antermony's Travels from St. Petersburgh in Russia to several Parts of Asia. Glasgow, 1763. 2 vols. 4to. Memoirs of B.H. Bruce, containing an Account of his Travels in Germany, Russia, Tartary, and the Indies. 1782. 4to. A Journey from India to England, in the year 1797. By John Jackson. 1799. 8vo. Histoire des Découvertes faites par divers Voyageurs.
A Voyage to South America. By Don George Juan and Don Ant. de Ulloa. 1758. 2 vols. 8vo. Peru, Chili, Carthagena, Porto Bello, and Panama, are described in these volumes with great talent and science with regard to their natural history, climate, and productions; and together with the civil, political, and domestic life of the inhabitants, and various other topics.
This being a part of Germany seldom visited, every thing relating to it is acceptable. Mr. Downes's work is, however, not so full and various as might have been expected: on manners and German literature it is most instructive. An Autumn near the Rhine, or Sketches of Courts, Scenery, and Society, in Germany, near the Rhine, 1821. 8vo.
Small 8vo, tastefully bound in white vellum cloth, illuminated in gold and colors, gilt top, uncut edges, with slip cover in scarlet. Each copy in a neat cloth case. $3.00. Or, Florence, Past and Present, by Virginia W. Johnson.
A certain M. de Saint-Mihiel published an 8vo volume in 1791, at Strasbourg and Paris, entitled 'Le veritable homme, dit au MASQUE DE FER, ouvrage dans lequel on fait connaitre, sur preuves incontestables, a qui le celebre infortune dut le jour, quand et ou il naquit'. The wording of the title will give an idea of the bizarre and barbarous jargon in which the whole book is written.
The author has been attacked by Rihs, a Swede, for misrepresenting the Swedes, and for having borrowed largely without acknowledgment from Leemius; and by his fellow-traveller, Skieldebrand, with having appropriated the views and designs which he made. The latter published in French a Picturesque Tour to the North Cape. Lachesis Lapponica, or a Tour in Lapland. By Linnæus, 1811. 2 vols. 8vo.
Holmes gives in this volume, they would force physicians to be less hypocritical in their management of them when they are ill, and they would destroy the wide-spread evil of quackery under which the world now groans. History of Civilization in England. By HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE. Vol. II. From the Second London Edition. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 8vo. The present volume of Mr.
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